• Online - no travel to campus required
• Next session:
  EDUC 744 958 June 9 - August 9, 2008
  EDUC 744 958 September 19 - November 17, 2008
  
• 3 graduate credits

What Our Students Are Saying

"The Teaching Art for Non-Art Teachers course caught my eye because I have always thought of myself as artistically challenged. In taking this course I was hoping to improve my knowledge of the visual arts, as well as obtain ideas for integrating art creatively into the content areas with hands-on engaging activities. During the course I learned a multitude about technical art terms, artists and their famous works, and techniques for creating art.

I gathered an entire file with literacy and web resources, including lesson plans to use in my classroom! Phillip is a wonderful, insightful instructor with a very impressive resume, both in and out of the classroom. His guidance and support have helped me gain confidence in my ability to learn and create art!

Unfortunately, due to funding shortages across many school districts, art programs are being eliminated. Teaching Art for Non-Art Teachers will help all teachers keep art alive and well in our schools!"
~ Carrie Wilkerson, 6th grade bilingual teacher

Are you frequently asking, “ How does a teacher create lessons that integrate the visual arts in the curriculum? How does a classroom teacher encourage creativity?"

Comments from Past Participants

Using illustrations and award-winning children's books, literature and famous masterpieces, this course will provide everything necessary for a successful, student-involved, fine art curriculum that will stimulate and enhance student creativity and assist classroom teachers in making connections between art and literacy.

The course is designed for teachers in grades K-8 public and charter schools and home schooling teachers who are seeking strategies for fine art curriculum development and implementation.

Every classroom teacher can benefit from integrating art activities with vocabulary and comprehension development, as well as strategies for incorporating graphic design in technology-based classroom assignments.

This course is for all teachers and is designed to enhance art education at a time when the arts are threatened by the standardization of education and at risk of being cut from the core curriculum. The course will emphasize hands-on experience integrating the Elements of Art (line, shape, texture, value, color and space), followed by the Principles of Art (harmony, variety, contrast, balance, movement, and dominance), and Artistic Styles (realism, impressionism, pointillism, and surrealism) and strategies supportive of art integration as part of cross-curriculum instructional activities.

Conducted online with no face-to-face class sessions, you may participate using your home or work computer without having to drive to campus.

You will connect to learning modules and class discussion via the course website. The class is highly interactive with a significant discussion component.

Required Textbook
Readings will be assigned from the following textbook:

Frohardt, Darcie Clark .Teaching Art With Books Kids Love: Teaching Art Appreciation, Elements of Art, and Principles of Design With Award-Winning Children's Books, Fulcrum Publishing, 1999.

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Additional readings and lectures will be available online within the text of each module.

NOTE: Art projects created in the class need to be posted on the course website. Participants in the class need to be able to photograph projects with a digital camera or scan projects. The ability to work with Adobe Photoshop or some other similar program would be useful.

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1. Analyze the major theories of the Elements and Principles of Art.
2. Demonstrate an understanding of strategies for teaching the principles and elements of art.
3. Synthesize research-based instructional and assessment practices for promoting understanding styles of art.
4. Evaluate methods and materials that embrace, stimulate, and enhance student creativity.
5. Demonstrate ways to utilize visual arts activities to support literacy learning.
6. Guide students with practical tips to improve designs when creating brochures and posters.
7. Illustrate artwork for bulletin boards, posters, and handouts.

• Participating in online class discussions with the instructor and peers and sharing responses to readings, online resources, literature review, and field research.
• Reflecting on what is learned when viewing best practice lesson plans.

Module 1 – Principles of Art: Line and Shape

Module 2 – Principles of Art: Texture and Value

Module 3 – Principles of Art: Color and Space

Module 4 – Principles of Art: Harmony, Variety, Contrast

Module 5 – Principles of Art: Balance and Movement

Module 6 – Principles of Art - Dominance
Artistic Style of Realism

Module 7 Artistic Styles of Impressionism, Pointillism, and Surrealism

Module 8 – Cartooning and Poster Design

The Value-Added Benefits of the Arts
"In keeping with NCLB's principle of classroom practices based on research evidence, studies have shown that arts teaching and learning can increase students' cognitive and social development. The arts can be a critical link for students in developing the crucial thinking skills and motivations they need to achieve at higher levels. Critical Links: Learning in the Arts and Student Academic and Social Development, a research compendium of the Arts Education Partnership, offers evidence of such links, including connections between arts learning and achievement in reading and math.

"Based on a review of data from the National Educational Longitudinal Study (NELS: 88), University of California-Los Angeles researchers determined that students who were highly involved in arts instruction earned better grades and performed better on standardized tests. They also performed more community service, watched fewer hours of television, reported less boredom in school, and were less likely to drop out of school. These findings were also true for students from the lowest socioeconomic status quartile of the 25,000 students surveyed, belying the assumption that socioeconomic status, rather than arts engagement, contributes to such gains in academic achievement and social involvement. Aa summary of these and other findings in Critical Links can be accessed at the Arts Education Partnership's website."

Alignment with Teaching Standards
Participants in this class will gain experience that will help them meet the following Wisconsin Teaching Standards: 1, 2, 4

Content Guidelines for Art and Design Education

This course will address the following content guidelines as described in Wisconsin’s Model Academic Standards for Art and Design Education
http://www.dpi.state.wi.us/dpi/standards/pdf/art&design.pdf

Standard 1: Students will know and remember information and ideas about the art and design around them and throughout the world.

Standard 3: Students will design and produce quality original images and objects, such as paintings, sculptures, designed objects, photographs, graphic designs, videos, and computer images.

Standard 4: Students will apply their knowledge of people, places, ideas, and languages of art and design to their daily lives.

Standard 5; Students will produce quality images and objects that effectively communicate and express ideas using varied media, techniques, and processes.

Standard 8: Students will develop perception, visual discrimination, and media literacy skills to become visually educated people.

Standard 11: Students will make connections among the arts, other disciplines, other cultures, and the world of work.

Standard 12: Students will use their imaginations and creativity to develop multiple solutions to problems, expand their minds, and create ideas for original works of art and design.

This class will help participants meet the National Educational Technology Standards for Teachers I, II, III, V.

Prerequisites
Hardware and Software Requirements

What are the minimum technology requirements?

Complete the system checkup on this website, https://uwstout.courses.wisconsin.edu/
by clicking on the link that says: Check your system.

Review the list of compatible/recommended browsers and software programs for Learn@UWStout at the Online Help Desk.

If you have any questions about these preferences, please call one of the numbers listed below and indicate that you are a UW-Stout student needing help with Learn@UW-Stout . Help is available 7 days a week.

• 1-888-435-7589 select option 3
, or
• 1-608-264-4357 select option 3

All projects will be exchanged by posting to online storage or the course DropBox, and your peers and instructor will provide suggestions and comments by posting to the discussion board.

Take a few minutes to review the Frequently Asked Questions, (FAQs).

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Instructor
Phillip Martin - background information

Registration
Tuition is payable by university billing, MasterCard, or Visa.
Participants may select the payment plan option in fall and spring, but it is not available during summer session. Refund policy

Enrollment is limited to twenty participants; register online .

For additional information, e-mail your comments or questions to:

Contact: Joan M. Vandervelde
Online Professional Development Coordinator
School of Education
University of Wisconsin - Stout
Menomonie, WI 54751
phone: (715) 642-0209
fax: (715) 232-3385

Introduction Activities
After you are enrolled, review the orientation, Student Expectations and Responsibilities and Academic Expectations and Dishonesty Policy .